History Trivia / YoungGuns

* TheOtherMarty: This movie accounts for one of the very few Music/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused. Westerns don't seem to have his ideal genre (''Film/TheMissing'' wound up ending his working relationship with Creator/RonHoward). Joseph Marinelli and Brian Banks replaced him.

** The movie accounts for one of the very few Music/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused. Westerns don't seem to have his ideal genre (''Film/TheMissing'' wound up ending his working relationship with Creator/RonHoward).

* One of the film's biggest fans was none other than Creator/EiichiroOda, who wrote and drew his very first manga ''Manga/{{Wanted}}'' as a parody of Westerns.

** In a 2016 meet and greet interview with Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, he revealed that Creator/SeanPenn was originally offered the role of Billy and Creator/PatrickSwayze was offered the role Dick Brewer. Due to legal troubles at the time Penn wasn't able to accept the role. Swayze wasn't interested in doing an ensemble movie and he had done several movies with the Brat Pack and he was trying to get away from that.

** In a 2016 meet and greet interview with Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, he revealed that Creator/SeanPenn was originally offered the role of Billy and Creator/PatrickSwayze was offered the role Dick Brewer. Due legal troubles at the time Penn wasn't able to accept the role. Swayze wasn't interested in doing an ensemble movie and he had done several movies with the Brat Pack and he was trying to get away from that.

* ActingForTwo: In addition to the role of Billy the Kid, Creator/EmilioEstevez dressed up as one of the enemy combatants in the [=McSween=] shootout at the end.

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: None of the movie's fight scenes were choreographed. The actors just improvised.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie accounts for one of the very few Music/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused. Westerns don't seem to have his ideal genre (''Film/TheMissing'' wound up ending his working relationship with Creator/RonHoward).

* DeletedScene: In the audio commentary Casey Siemaszko reveals the prostitute Charlie goes to see was actually a longer scene, and the end of the scene he tells the guys the woman was his mother.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Lou Diamond Phillips is afraid of heights. That's why he moves so slowly on the 30-foot high cliff.

* ActingForTwo: In addition to the role of Billy the Kid, Emilio Estevez dressed up as one of the enemy combatants in the [=McSween=] shootout at the end.

** Emilio Estevez and Creator/CharlieSheen costar.

** In the scene where Billy is having Doc write a letter to the Governor, Emilio Estevez wanted to make it look like he was making the speech off the top of his head, so the crew made a cue card for him to read. If you look closely, you can actually see his eyes moving while he is reciting the speech.

** Baker, the guy who gets knifed, is Jack Palance's son Cody Palance.

** None of the movie's fight scenes were choreographed. The actors just improvised.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie accounts for one of the very few Music/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused. Westerns don't seem to have his ideal genre (''Film/TheMissing'' wound up ending his working relationship with Creator/RonHoward).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie accounts for one of the very few Music/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused. Westerns don't seem to have his ideal genre (''Film/TheMissing'' wound up ending his working relationship with RonHoward).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie accounts for one of the very few Music/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused.

* ActingForTwo: In addition to the role of Billy the Kid, Emilio Estevez dressed up as one of the enemy combatants in the [=McSween=] shootout at the end of the original film.
* BreakawayPopHit: The sequel is most likely only remembered these days for the Music/BonJovi title track "Blaze of Glory". While the film itself debuted to tepid reviews and a weak opening (coming in third on its opening weekend behind ''Film/{{Ghost}}'' and ''Film/PresumedInnocent''), "Blaze" was a #1 Billboard Hit, nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Original Song) and spawned a top-selling solo album of the same name.
* TheOtherDarrin: The character of Pat Garrett is played by Patrick Wayne in the original film, and by [[Series/{{CSI}} William Petersen]] in the sequel.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The first movie accounts for one of the very few Creator/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out and unused.
** There was originally intended to be a sequence in the sequel where Chavez is riding on a horse while Billy fires a weapon near him. When it came time to shoot the scene, the horse got spooked when Emilio Estevez fired his weapon and knocked Lou Diamond Phillips off, then dragged him along the ground with a noose around his neck and tied to the saddlehorn, nearly killing him in the process. As a result, the scene was never refilmed and was left on the cutting room floor.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first movie accounts for one of the very few Creator/JamesHorner scores to be thrown out.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Pretty much the casts of both films; the sequel almost imploded the universe for having [[Film/TheMightyDucks Gordon Bombay]], [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]], and [[Series/{{CSI}} Gil Grissom]] all in the same film in dominant roles.
** TomCruise is one of the Murphy gang's gunmen during the final shootout of the first movie.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Pretty much the casts of both films; the sequel almost imploded the universe for having [[Film/TheMightyDucks Gordon Bombay]], [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]], and [[{{CSI}} Gil Grissom]] all in the same film in dominant roles.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Pretty much the casts of both films; the sequel almost imploded the universe for having [[Film/TheMightyDucks Gordon Bombay]], [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]], and [[{{CSI}} Gil Grissom]] all in the same film in dominant roles.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Pretty much the casts of both films; the sequel almost imploded the universe for having [[TheMightyDucks Gordon Bombay]], [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]], and [[{{CSI}} Gil Grissom]] all in the same film in dominant roles.